Manahil Bandukwala

Manahil Bandukwala is a writer and visual artist from Karachi, Pakistan, now based in Mississauga and Ottawa, Ontario. She is the author of Heliotropia (Brick Books 2024; shortlisted for the 2025 Pat Lowther Award and Raymond Souster Award) and MONUMENT (Brick Books 2022; shortlisted for the 2023 Gerald Lampert Award). She has been twice-longlisted for the CBC Poetry Prize, in 2019 and 2024, and was selected as a Writer’s Trust of Canada Rising Star in 2023. She is the co-creator of Reth aur Reghistan, a multidisciplinary project exploring folklore from Pakistan through poetry, sculpture, and community arts. See her work at manahilbandukwala.com.